Ingredients
For recipe see Italy Revisited/Calconi
Directions
Notes
Generally speaking the word, "susumelle," describes Calabrian Christmas cookies (for recipe see Italy Revisited/Cookies without Nuts) but it appears that the word, "Susmelle" and sometimes, "susumelle," can also describe horseshoe-shaped miniature calzone from the Abruzzo region. Actually, the word, "susamielli" can also refer to S shaped spiced honey cookies from Campania. The fact is that all these words have, "mielli," in it, and "mielli" sounds a lot like the Italian word for honey, so it is not surprising that a number of sweets from a number of areas in Italy include this word, what is surprising is that the sweets with very similar names don't look anything like each other, nor do they taste similar. Comments and photo: Mary Melfi. |
